Subject: National Team

You can trust me, I'm not some random trainer :-)

Thanks to you guys! I will be active in forum and cheering for Australia... Also, i will be running for Argentina NT, there is no one trying to coach my country so i have to do some patriotism!
But i will be cheering for the aussies and when i have some free time in my life i will try to come back!
It would be amazing to quallify to a WC

gracias makina por todo!!!!!

De nada queridooo! Abrazo grande!!! Sos chileno??
Que fenomeno!

si amigo cdte y nos vemos pronto por aca abrazo!!

Australian group:

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Magyraorszag - rating 78-80
Uruguay - rating 76-80
Australia - rating 76-79
El Salvador - rating 70-75
Republica Dominicana - rating 68-70
South Africa - rating 63-65

Not a bad group really. The top 3 are all very close in rating, and El Salvador are close enough that they could steal some points too

Assuming I'll be reelected in El Salvador this will be my third out of 4 WCQ where I'll face against Australia XD
4th time I was Your coach so it doesn't count :D

In my last match i am happy we achieved bronze medal in Asian cup against New Zeland!! I will be watching carefully the qually to the WC!!

Nice group. As I said in the other thread, we have history with Uruguay in WCQ. Let's hope we get an Aloisi moment in sokker.

Coaches, here are two friendly matches I booked today

Week 2 - friendly match
Australia vs Turkiye (6 in ranking)

Week 8 - friendly match
Australia vs Lietuva (40 in ranking)

Türkiye is an interesting choice. What made you go that route?

I want to test our team in a defensive formation with someone strong. Unfortunately, we don't have a top-class winger, so I want to try playing without him.

I've made some minor changes, here's a look at the squad at the start of the '76 season:
The numbers indicate my player rating 1-5
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GK:
Austin Munn - 29y - 5/5
Talon Bracken - 27y - 4,5/5
Cael Masi - 24y - 4,5/5

DEF:
Ian Carr - 29y - 5/5
Jeromy Brabham - 25y - 4,5/5
Jirra Haines - 27y - 4,5/5
Patrick Tennant - 29y - 4,5/5
Nick Haddrill - 29y - 4,5/5
Kane Kirkpatrick - 30y - 4,5/5
John Brown - 31y - 4,5/5
Ace Franklin - 27y - 4/5
Rick Rayner - 29y - 4/5
Jirra Ponting - 24y - 4/5
Samuel Anderson - 27y - 4/5
Sebastian Yang - 27y - 4/5
Adrian Van Blerk - 30y - 4/5
Dylan Thompson - 31y - 4/5
Noel Wilkin - 32y - 4/5
Travis Marsh - 29y - 4/5

Central MID:
Damian Myers - 32y - 4/5
Mike Sutton - 35y - 3,5/5
Shaun Bulloch - 29y - 2.5/5
Ray Burton - 32y - 2.5/5

WING:
Ace Scuderi - 31y - 4,5/5
Brett Shaw - 27y - 4/5
Patrick Lockett - 26y - 4/5
Goran Chen - 27y - 4/5
Christian Renaud - 32y - 3,5/5
Alex Van Gisbergen - 27y - 3,5/5
Ace Leiyer - 32y - 3,5/5
Marshall Schofield - 31y - 3,5/5
Yay Sekulovski - 24y - 3/5

ATT:
Evan Shipley - 28y - 4/5
Matthew Crews - 29y - 4/5
Stuart Lang - 30y - 4/5
Rob Zdrilic - 27y - 4/5
Jacob Bonetig - 26y - 4/5
Terje Parkinson - 34y - 3,5/5
Owen Beldham - 25y - 3,5/5
Sebastian Morgan - 28y - 3,5/5


Wide team:

GK - Bobby Simpson - 28y - 4,5/5
GK - Kristian Coyne - 25y - 4,5/5
GK - Angus Kemp - 25y - 4/5
GK - Dan Blake - 23y - 4/5
DEF - Terje Hocking - 26y - 4/5
DEF - Barney Peters - 29y - 4/5
DEF - Steven Brain 32y - 4/5
DEF - Maka Langdon - 28y - 4/5
DEF - Steven Ho - 26y - 3,5/5
DEF - Paolo Collins - 25y - 3,5/5
DEF - Loyd Petrie - 25y - 3,5/5
DEF - Louis Austin - 25y - 3/5
C.MID - Rex Landers - 29y - 2,5/5
C.MID - Karl Sevin - 33y - 2/5
WING - Josip Burke - 33y - 4/5
WING - Travis Jayanthi - 28y - 3,5/5
WING - Nathan Fleming - 28y - 3,5/5
WING - Paolo Diggins - 26y - 3,5/5
WING - Daniel Lozanovski - 29y - 3/5
WING - Charlie Lane - 25y - 3/5
ATT - Stephen Jayanthi - 28y - 3,5/5
ATT - Anthony Langdon - 26y - 3,5/5
ATT - Jason Mitchell - 32y - 3,5/5
ATT - Dale Rose - 27y - 3,5/5
ATT - Adam Holmes - 25y - 3,5/5
ATT - Craig D`Arcy - 25y - 3/5


My conclusions about the state of the national team:
- We have very strong defenders. Our defenders are easily in the top 15 in the world.
- Unfortunately, our weakest position is CENTRAL midfield.
- There are no promising players who could change that for 2-3 seasons, but there's a chance that Brett Shaw and Jay Sekulovski will become good central midfielders if they receive a lot of defensive training (Shaw only has defense for 2 seasons).
- We have good strikers, but even one top striker could make a big difference.
- You're a great community; this squad is very good, considering how small Australia is.
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Unfortunately, a heavy defeat against Turkey. My midfield test was a disappointment. I'll draw conclusions for other matches and set up the team differently. Türkiye is a very strong team, and they outscored me :(

Happy new year!!!